Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour Saint-Firmin
Beaugency, Loiret, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour Saint-Firmin (cad. F4 885) : classement par arrêté du 10 septembre 1913
- Protection dates
- 1913/09/10 : classé MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place Saint-Firmin
- Commune
- Beaugency
- Département
- Loiret
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.77669, 1.63226
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098702
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1760 map "28 Vendome." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Bâtiment isolé qui faisait partie d'une église aujourd'hui démolie. Le rez-de-chaussée de la tour, qui servait de porche, conserve encore la porte d'entrée de l'église. La sculpture de cette dernière accuse la Renaissance, mais certaines formes et la mouluration se réfèrent encore au 15e siècle. Dans la partie supérieure, au-dessus du beffroi, se trouve une voûte à pans, octogone, établie sur des pendentifs qui font passer du carré à l'octogone. La couverture est surmontée d'un petit campanile.
English translation
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History
Isolated building which formed part of a church now demolished. The ground floor of the tower, which served as a porch, still retains the entrance door of the church. The sculpture of the latter shows Renaissance characteristics, but certain forms and the moulding still refer to the 15th century. In the upper part, above the belfry, is found a vault with panels, octagonal, established on pendentives which make the transition from square to octagonal. The covering is surmounted by a small campanile.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien hospicehospiceunder 1 mi
- Maison dite "des Templiers"maisonunder 1 mi
- Donjon quadrangulaire, dit Tour de Césarédifice fortifiéunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.